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Frederik Borgesius
@Frederik_Borgesius@akademienl.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

We are hiring!

A fully paid legal PhD position.

Topic: The Digital Services Act (DSA), hate speech, takedown requests, trusted flaggers.

It’s an interdisciplinary project, with Delft University among the partners.

PhD supervisors: Pieter Wolters, Raphael gellert & me.

https://www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/353155/phd-position-effective-governance-for-cybersecurity-and-online-safety/

#law #academia #jobs #phd#tech #ai #dsa #platforms

I would appreciate it a lot if you could spread this info among your network. Thank you!
Frederik Borgesius
@Frederik_Borgesius@akademienl.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

We are hiring!

A fully paid legal PhD position.

Topic: The Digital Services Act (DSA), hate speech, takedown requests, trusted flaggers.

It’s an interdisciplinary project, with Delft University among the partners.

PhD supervisors: Pieter Wolters, Raphael gellert & me.

https://www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/353155/phd-position-effective-governance-for-cybersecurity-and-online-safety/

#law #academia #jobs #phd#tech #ai #dsa #platforms

I would appreciate it a lot if you could spread this info among your network. Thank you!

Joseph Nuthalapati :fbx:
Cory Doctorow
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JWcph, Radicalized By Decency
@jwcph@helvede.net  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Fun fact: Behavioural scientists discovered that if you put a treat-dispensing lever in a rat cage, well, the rats will press it - but if you let it dispense treats arbitrarily they'll press it more than if every press yields a reward. Unpredictability causes obssessive behavior.

If you read this article by @pluralistic you'll probably understand why I thought of that little bit of trivia right now.

Also: Beware of "pay by the pull" deals ‼️

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115038991429305983

#ai#tech #business
JWcph, Radicalized By Decency
@jwcph@helvede.net  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Fun fact: Behavioural scientists discovered that if you put a treat-dispensing lever in a rat cage, well, the rats will press it - but if you let it dispense treats arbitrarily they'll press it more than if every press yields a reward. Unpredictability causes obssessive behavior.

If you read this article by @pluralistic you'll probably understand why I thought of that little bit of trivia right now.

Also: Beware of "pay by the pull" deals ‼️

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115038991429305983

#ai#tech #business

Alan Boyle
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Astro Hawk (Ian Kluft) ✅🚀🛰️
@AstroHawk@spacey.space  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago
@alanboyle I know Woody Hoburg by his #HamRadio callsign KB3HTZ. In 2011 when he was working on his PhD at UC Berkeley, he participated with the Stratofox Aerospace Tracking Team. Our team assisted the California Near Space Project with tracking their CNSP-05 balloon. That was 4 years before CNSP went on to make balloons circumnavigate the globe. And 6 years before Woody was in the 2017 NASA astronaut class. But on that day, CNSP-05 fell in the ocean. https://www.cnsp-inc.com/cnsp-05/ #space#tech
Astro Hawk (Ian Kluft) ✅🚀🛰️
@AstroHawk@spacey.space  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago
@alanboyle I know Woody Hoburg by his #HamRadio callsign KB3HTZ. In 2011 when he was working on his PhD at UC Berkeley, he participated with the Stratofox Aerospace Tracking Team. Our team assisted the California Near Space Project with tracking their CNSP-05 balloon. That was 4 years before CNSP went on to make balloons circumnavigate the globe. And 6 years before Woody was in the 2017 NASA astronaut class. But on that day, CNSP-05 fell in the ocean. https://www.cnsp-inc.com/cnsp-05/ #space#tech
Neil Brown
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Frederik Borgesius
@Frederik_Borgesius@akademienl.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

NL. Horrible data breach.

The data of 485,000 women who participated in the population screening for cervical cancer has been stolen via a hack. Not just personal information, such as name and address, was involved. Official identification numbers and test results were also captured.

https://www.rtl.nl/nieuws/binnenland/artikel/5522737/bevolkingsonderzoek-baarmoederhalskanker-data-gehackt-vrouwen

#privacy #security #cybersecurity #gdpr#tech
Frederik Borgesius
@Frederik_Borgesius@akademienl.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

NL. Horrible data breach.

The data of 485,000 women who participated in the population screening for cervical cancer has been stolen via a hack. Not just personal information, such as name and address, was involved. Official identification numbers and test results were also captured.

https://www.rtl.nl/nieuws/binnenland/artikel/5522737/bevolkingsonderzoek-baarmoederhalskanker-data-gehackt-vrouwen

#privacy #security #cybersecurity #gdpr#tech
A Sweet Gentleman
@aSweetGentleman@mstdn.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

I knew the AI craze reminded me of something.

"With no understanding of the ill effects of radiation poisoning, radium became a fashionable trend, a medical cure-all, and an industrial wonder."

"Newspapers imagined future cities lit by radium lamps, restaurants serving glow-in-the-dark radium cocktails and candy, radium fertilizer improving the output of farms, and doctors using radium to cure cancer forever."

https://www.nyhistory.org/blogs/get-me-a-radium-highball-new-york-and-the-radium-craze

#AI#fad#bigtech#tech#history#pollution#science
Danny Boling ☮️
@IAmDannyBoling@mstdn.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

This is better advice than I get from my IT guy! blobcatheadphones

#cats #CatsOfMastodon#CouldntWaitForCaturday #IT#HelpDesk#tech#technology#IAmDB

It's a four-panel meme with a caption. The panels each have a slightly different headshot photo of a really cute kitty cat who's mostly white except for its black ears and a striking and unique thin strip of black fur that starts at the kitty's left ear, circles the left side of its head then curls upward at its chin toward its mouth, ending in a small circle of fur right at its lower lip. The strip of black fur couldn't look more like a telephone headset if it tried lol. I mean, you can't miss it! That it looks like a telephone headset is the first thing most people would think of, IMO. Anyhoo, the first panel has the kitty quote talking on the phone un-quote and saying "Right..." The second says "Uh-huh..." and the next one says "Ah, I see." The last panel has the kitty saying "Have you tried pushing it off the counter?" under a caption that says "Thank you for calling Kitty I.T. How may I help you today?"
It's a four-panel meme with a caption. The panels each have a slightly different headshot photo of a really cute kitty cat who's mostly white except for its black ears and a striking and unique thin strip of black fur that starts at the kitty's left ear, circles the left side of its head then curls upward at its chin toward its mouth, ending in a small circle of fur right at its lower lip. The strip of black fur couldn't look more like a telephone headset if it tried lol. I mean, you can't miss it! That it looks like a telephone headset is the first thing most people would think of, IMO. Anyhoo, the first panel has the kitty quote talking on the phone un-quote and saying "Right..." The second says "Uh-huh..." and the next one says "Ah, I see." The last panel has the kitty saying "Have you tried pushing it off the counter?" under a caption that says "Thank you for calling Kitty I.T. How may I help you today?"
It's a four-panel meme with a caption. The panels each have a slightly different headshot photo of a really cute kitty cat who's mostly white except for its black ears and a striking and unique thin strip of black fur that starts at the kitty's left ear, circles the left side of its head then curls upward at its chin toward its mouth, ending in a small circle of fur right at its lower lip. The strip of black fur couldn't look more like a telephone headset if it tried lol. I mean, you can't miss it! That it looks like a telephone headset is the first thing most people would think of, IMO. Anyhoo, the first panel has the kitty quote talking on the phone un-quote and saying "Right..." The second says "Uh-huh..." and the next one says "Ah, I see." The last panel has the kitty saying "Have you tried pushing it off the counter?" under a caption that says "Thank you for calling Kitty I.T. How may I help you today?"